Jean astruc biography

Jean Astruc(Sauves, Auvergne, March 19, 1684- Paris, May 5, 1766) was a famous professor of medicine at Montpellierand Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on syphilisand venereal diseases, and also, with a small anonymously published book, played a fundamental part in the origins of critical textual analysis of works of scripture.

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Astruc was the first to convincingly suggest using the techniques of textual analysis that were commonplace in studying the secular classics— that Genesiswas composed based on several sources or manuscript traditions, an approach that was still cautiously being called the documentary hypothesisin the late 19th century.

He was the son of a Protestant minister who had converted to Catholicism (but the House of Astruc was of medieval Jewish origin).

Astruc was educated at Montpellier, one of the great schools of medicine in early modern Europe. His diss